"We need a more widely shared burden on the part of society to keep asking, "What are our collective values, what kind of world do we want to bequeath to our children, and to what extent are these particular technological developments helping us go in those directions? I think that corporations, every bit as much as governments, social movements, and universities - we all have a role to play in asking those questions. I don't think anybody should have a monopoly on that responsibility."

-- Sheila Jasanoff

#Children Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.”
“Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.”
“I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Chatting With Newsies Star Kara Lindsay". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 30, 2011.
“The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.”

Source : Carl Schmitt (2008). “The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition”, p.26, University of Chicago Press
“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.”
“Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.”
“How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.”
“When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.”

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